The Deep Zen In The Art Of China's Classical Garden

With the introduction of Buddhism , the absorb and rebuild for it of local culture, caused the birth of Chinese culture's new factor- the most famous was zen . And zen's culture meaning was far more the category of religion.In fact, Chinese esquire pid great admire to zen's idea, thoughtful wony and neat honey.The zen was bread by the colourful culture of china , in return,the zen had also influenced deeply to Chinese culture . At the same time , it togethered with the Confucianists and Taoists that became the ideaistic brace of culture's gene .The art of garden embodies material culture and intellectual culture . The zen materialized our cultural intention and asthetic standards . The china' s classical garden reflects that we look forward to the union of the heaven and the man from its arrangement of mountion and water, its building and vegetation,and its name .As a cultural aesthetic experience zen includes the atitude of life . It demands you to free from aesthetic experience and aquire , to realize the true aspect of life and to arrive the spiritral satisfaction . In thes sense , zen close to the art experiences of over utility in Chinese aquiring of Art realization .so in some distance , this atitude is the connective point of Chinese gardens art and zen culture .This thesis tries to expound the affection about zen for horticultural aesthetic appreciation of china in detail , from the evolution's couse which is the style of horticulture in china (point of view from history) ; to sundry aesthetic element namely the building of rockword and water, plants , the way to composing scenery , the art of spatial handle (the material level) ; to consiciousness's bourn of horticulture (the level of soul), and so on . And then we can detect zen's significance which is in traditional consciousness of aecthetic appreciation in ancient china through landscape that materialize distinctive cultural form the idea and sentiment of principal part .